Montreal, Canada: Quest Film Productions, 1976. Final Draft script for the 1976 film. With a few holograph pencil and ink annotations to the title page.An international hunt begins for a powerful, rare stone amulet activated through Easter Island energy produced by an upcoming solstice.Orange untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated July.....

N.p. The Corman Company, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film. A Vietnam vet is hired to deal with a group of rowdy oil workers causing trouble in a small town, and decides to occupy the town with his mercenary buddies in order to provide a solution. A low budget action film, shot in just 30 days, after producer.....

N.p. Self published, 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter," written by Joshua Becker and Scott Spiegel, who released a short film of the same name a year earlier, in 1982, starring Bruce Campbell as the bounty hunter, and Sam Raimi as a nazi. This script is very likely a lengthening of the original short.....

Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1964 film. With an agency stamp and holograph annotations on the verso. Dufourquet (Belmondo) is in Paris on shore leave, eager to see his Agnes (Dorléac). When he finally sees her, only briefly before she's kidnapped and held for ransom by a treasure-hungry family friend. A James.....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1990. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1990 film, showing director Besson peering through a missing pane of glass with a camera. A breakthrough international success for Besson, who would go on to a long career as a director and producer of action films, and would hit it even bigger three years later with "The Professional" ("Leon"). Remade.....

Los Angeles: Ablo, 1987. Draft script for the 1988 film. After his friend Cody disappears into the forest, Dallas is determined to find him, unbeknownst to his younger brother Joey, whom he invites along on his trip and believes them to be on a simple hunting trip. After Cody is found crucified in the woods and a young woman Stevie.....

Los Angeles: Turbulence Productions, 1996. Revised Fourth Draft script for the 1997 film.After both pilots and the navigator are killed mid-flight by two prisoners on board, a brave flight attendant must direct the plane to safety.Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated May 6, 1996, noted as Revised Fourth Draft, with credits for screenwriter Jonathan Brett and revisions by Steven.....

Manhattan Beach, CA: Lightstorm Entertainment, 1991. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film, dated February 19, 1991. Script pages watermarked “T20029” and bearing the ownership watermarks of director Cameron’s production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, as called for. With an alternate ending to the film, which was shot but ultimately cut before release. Included is a set of pencil sketches featuring concept.....

N.p. N.p., 1953. Collection of six vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1953 French film.Based on the 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece, a tense, literally volatile thriller which follows a team of four luckless Europeans who have been hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks of nitroglycerine through the South.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white double weight studio still photographs from the 1973 film. Based on an original story by Sonny Grosso, about the "Seven-Ups," a secret New York detective squad with unorthodox methods (of questionable legality). An informant for the squad is secretly behind a kidnapping scheme, with the kidnappers impersonating police officers. Shot.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1983. Second Draft script for an unproduced (or retitled) episode of the television series "High Performance," which aired for one season (and only 3 episodes) on ABC in 1983. A former race car driver turned racing instructor is approached by a former CIA operative with a plan to start a highly specialized bodyguard business, leading.....

Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of Ursula Andress on the set of the 1965 film, provocatively eating a banana. With agency stamps and holograph annotations on the verso. Loosely based on the 1879 novel "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China" by Jules Verne. An adventure-comedy following the depressed billionaire Arthur Lempereur (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who after a series.....

Paris: France Cinema, 1961. Collection of 9 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Les Mongols." Rubber-stamps on the versos, crediting photographer Dorka and street address. Palance and Ekberg are present in a few photos, including two candid images of Ekberg. Housed in brown envelope and fold, both with French film.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Final Draft script for the 1967 film. James Coburn returns as Derek Flint in this James Bond-styled spy spoof sequel to "Our Man Flint" (1966). Flint's boss assigns him to stop a group of women on the Virgin Islands who hope to take over the world. The enemy women are kidnapping astronauts and replacing them.....

London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Original British quad poster for the 1975 US film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew, featuring cool high-contrast design. Sequel to William Friedkin's fantastic 1971 film, "The French Connection." This time, Hackman and Rey both reprising their roles, the action goes down in Marseilles. More drugs, more shootouts, and Doyle's forced heroin addiction. 30 x......

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971. Vintage press photograph of director William Friedkin on the set of the 1971 film. Holograph annotations on the verso. William Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's non-fiction account of east coast drug trafficking. Perhaps the greatest of the many 1970s crime films that were shot on location in New York.....

Los Angeles: Esskay Pictures Corporation, 1953. Vintage photograph of actors Denise Darcel and Patric Knowles, producer Sam Katzman, and production manager Bert Leonard on the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe and an rubber studio stamp on the verso. Set in 1765 in India. Calcutta's King, Amir Khasid (Gregory Gaye) is ousted from his position by Prince Jehan (George.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Nick (Williams) is a federal agent tracking down a heroin ring, with the help of a few recruits he's trained, and seeking revenge for his deceased daughter. Prostitution, Vietnam War vets, and a Jewish ex-con make the nearly three-hour hit an explosive dose of action. Set in France, shot on.....

Rome, Italy: Produzione Gallone / Filmsonor, 1951. Original souvenir program, printed in Italy, for the 1951 Italian-French-Spanish film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color illustrations of Roman warriors and women, and.....

New York: Interstar, 1978. Revised Shooting script for the 1980 film. Vigilante crime drama focuses on a Vietnam vet who reeks revenge on the streets of New York for his friend who was mugged and subsequently crippled. In the vein of "Death Wish" (1974), but with more flame-throwing, more whores and junkies, and more exterminating. A cult classic. Shot on.....

US: Cannon Films, 1985. Draft script and archive for the 1986 film belonging to actor Lainie Kazan, who played Sylvia in the film, with her holograph annotations throughout, and various other ephemera, including call sheets, cast and crew lists, two thumbnail sized photographs of her in character, and 16 additional revised script pages with occasional handwritten annotations. Most significantly, included.....

Paris: Dargaud Films, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 French-British film. Based on the "Asterix" comic book series by writer Goscinny and illustrator Uderzo, a series that began in 1959, serialized in Pilote magazine, and ran until Goscinny's death in 1977, afterwards written by Uderzo until 2009. The series has spawned thirteen films, four of them live-action, games, and.....

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1977. Final Revised Draft script for the 1977 television movie. Based on the 1977 book by Harold King. Included is a vintage production photo of William Devane from the film, with a snipe on the verso with the CBS television logo. A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and seals off the reactor.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. Shooting script for the 1990 film. With rainbow revision pages throughout.Sequel to the 1988 action thriller, based on the unrelated 1987 novel "58 Minutes" by Walter Wager. Two years after the Nakatomi Tower incident, hard-nosed cop John McClane returns to save Dulles International Airport from grenade-wielding ex-military mercenaries. Set in Washington, DC, and shot on.....

N.p. N.p., 1972. Revised Version Draft script for the 1972 film, belonging to actor Martin Landau. Annotation of copy number "27" on top right of title page. Twenty pages of script contain annotations, eighteen of which are every time Landau's character Capelli appears, with Capelli's name circled, top of page x'd, with locations and actions underlined and blocked in holograph.....

N.p. N.p., 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film, showing actors Paul Muni, George Raft, Karen Morley, Purnell Pratt, and others.Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail, which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" (released only a few months prior), generally considered.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final script for the 1969 film. A landmark of New Hollywood cinema, and arguably the high spot (as well as the beginning) of an incredible streak of inventive cinematic achievements directed by George Roy Hill in the 1960s and 1970s that included "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972), "The Sting" (1973), and "Slap Shot" (1977). Loosely based on fact.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1978. Vintage matte black-and-white reference photograph of director Walter Hill and actor Isabelle Adjani on the set of the 1978 film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso.Director Walter Hill's existential neo-noir, heavily influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" (1967), with some of the finest car-chase sequences ever committed to celluloid. The film follows.....

Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Photocopied and cobbled together during production for used by actress Elizabeth Rogers, who played Priscilla in the film, with her name in holograph ink on the title page and holograph annotations in ink and pencil throughout.Ron Howard's directorial debut, made during his brief tutelage under Roger Corman. A......

Hollywood: Fox Film, 1935. First Draft script for the 1935 film, here under the working title "The Lord's Refugee." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in holograph pencil to the front wrapper, and single holograph annotation in pencil to page 74.In an attempt to go straight, a former bodyguard with a violent past shacks up in.....

n.p. N.p., Circa 1982. Two draft scripts for an unproduced film. Both have a flyer for the film laid-in, and are heavily notated with holograph ink and pencil. Based on the 1968 novel "Legion of Outcasts" by Hurk Davis, the autobiography of Peter Reeves as told to Mr. Davis, who was a Dutchman living comfortably until he ran out of.....

England: ITC Entertainment, 1977. Collection of 7 vintage full color British front-of-house cards from the 1977 American-British film. Robert (Gould) is a reporter investigating the questionable actions of NASA after a failed mission to Mars. The head of the mission forces three astronauts to participate in a fake Mars mission, including a fake landing, transmitted messages, and a fatal reentry.....

Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1938. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1938 film. Featuring images of Ralph Byrd, Doris Weston, Ward Bond, and others. Written for the screen by Nathanael West. Ralph Byrd and Ward Bond play two rough and tumble truckers who agree to take a dangerous load of dynamite to a city in danger of being.....

New York: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1954. Treatment script for the 1955 film. Brief annotations in holograph pencil throughout, and two names, Collins and Swann (presumed, association unknown), on the first page. Noted in pencil on the last leaf of text as "13 page treatment / 28 story developments / The entire story related here / story of taming of a......

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1962. Revised Draft script for the Episode 41 of Season 4 of the television series. Copy belonging to Sammy Davis Jr, who played the cashier and Kid Pepper in this episode, with his signature on the first page, and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Two private investigators work on the south side of.....

New York: Greenwich Film Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text, titles, and annotations in Japanese.Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other, as well as their father. Nominated for four.....

Universal City: Universal City Studios, 1978. Vintage reference photograph from the 1978 film, showing director John Landis on the set of the film's final scene in Joliet Prison, wearing a "Joliet" baseball cap, with the iconic painted motto reading "It's Never Too Late to Mend" visible in the background. With the stamp of National Film Archive on the verso. An.....

New York: Film Trust Overseas, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. With a single holograph notation to the title page noting the number 26. Based on Alistair Maclean's 1962 novel, wherein a crew of a luxury liner foils the attempts of a group of international hijackers to use the ship as bait to steal gold bullion from a US.....

Hong Kong: Golden Harvest / Concord Productions, 1972. Collection of three vintage lobby cards for the 1972 film, likely for an international release. The first film produced by Bruce Lee's Concord Productions studio, as well as Lee's screenwriting and directorial debuts, and the film debut of Chuck Norris, who battles Lee in an iconic fight scene at the film's climax.....